Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though I walk through the valley of depression, I will fear no evil: for F. D. R. art with me; thy PWA and thy WPA they comfort...
...Paul high-school girl who spent every spare moment at the airport, eventually bought a Curtiss JN4D ("Jenny"). A onetime Army officer named Vernon C. Omlie taught her to fly it. Year later, after he had also taught her how to walk wings, make parachute jumps, hang by her teeth or swing from a trapeze on one plane to another in midair, they were married, went barnstorming as "The Flying Omlies." In 1927 Mrs. Omlie won her transport license, first ever granted to a U. S. woman. In 1929-30-31 she walked off with the chief feminine prizes...
...Tulsa, Okla., Negro George Tipton, held for the theft of a lawn mower, explained: "I didn't steal it. I stumbled over it and was too lazy to walk around it -so I just pushed it away...
Died. Dr. William McDonald, 63, neurologist who treated Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1925-26) for infantile paralysis at his farm in North Marion, Mass.; after long illness; in Marion. Under his direction Mr. Roosevelt learned to walk on a specially constructed gangplank by supporting himself on its handrails...
...postman who takes a walk on his holiday is a joke. Last week the nation chuckled when it was revealed that Postmaster General James' Aloysius Farley had been granted a payless leave of absence from his Cabinet post, would spend his new leisure at politics. Beginning Aug. 1, announced President Roosevelt, "General" Farley would give his time for three months to his duties as chairman of the Democratic National Committee...